Lars Rasmussen
Lars Rasmussen's Come Raw available on Amazon.com.
Lars Rasmussen's Come Raw offers a world of strange, haunting tales, sometimes lyrical, sometimes dark as deep Danish winter night, and sometimes both, and sometimes all of these things. There is even a story here written in Latin! Although it is followed immediately by the English version. Whether brief as a flaming match or burning more slowly, like a taper in the dark, these tales have a tendency to brand themselves into the reader's mind.
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RIMBAUD, THE HUMAN GOD
The wonder of Arthur Rimbaud!
No, not the youthful raver, but the man, he who went to Abyssinia to trade in guns and ivory, he who let himself dry out by the sun and let his skin burn black for simple gain, Rimbaud the avaricious, Rimbaud the slave-trader!
The Rimbaud I adore is the one who killed a worker by throwing a rock at him, the one who kept a black woman as a sex-slave in his backyard, the one who threw into the flames the work of another man’s life: ten folios of meticulous anthropological records and maps, that’s the man who receives my homage!
The Rimbaud who no longer lived on illusions and assertions, but actively fought under the banner of death and whose poems were no longer composed of words, but of bones and dry skin and desert sand. The Rimbaud whose feverish visions and unintelligible outpourings no longer came from absinthe and hashish but from gangrene and cancer.
Rimbaud, the man-god! Tell me the number of your slaves, let me stack your gold bars! Lend me your gun, let me kiss your burnt skin! Take me into the the desert, show me a baking sun that can burn all sentimentality and delusion in my life to ashes!
Information about the Author
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Lars Rasmussen is a man of many parts: He has owned and managed an antiquarian bookshop in the center of Copenhagen, The Booktrader, for over twenty years now. As a publisher, he has issued excellent and rare works on South African jazz, golf and other topics as well as a CD recording series which includes both jazz and many of the greatest living poets in Denmark. And he has published many books of his own stories, not to mention his annual Christmas journal containing fiction, poems, essays, and art by many of his customers — and he does have some impressive customers who include writers, musicians, artists, singers, actors, journalists, professors, and most of all — readers.
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Logo art by Barry Lereng Wilmont
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